Physical activity and its impact on academic achievement among health sciences students Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Self-determination influences physical activity which improves student’s health status leading to an increase in their academic achievements. However, these relationships among health sciences students remain unclear. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the influences of self-determination t...
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| Language: | English |
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Pusat Pengurusan & Pembangunan Mahasiswa, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15975/1/Artikel-8_Dr-Izatus-Shima-Taib_FSK.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15975/ http://www.ukm.my/personalia/publication-category/volume-23-number-2-december-2020/ |
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| Summary: | Self-determination influences physical activity which improves student’s health status leading to an increase
in their academic achievements. However, these relationships among health sciences students remain unclear.
Therefore, this study aims to investigate the influences of self-determination towards physical activity and the
relationship between physical activity level and academic achievement among third-year students of Faculty of
Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). A cross-sectional study was conducted among 180
third-year students from all programs in Faculty of Health Sciences, UKM from March to May 2020 using a
self-administered short-form version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-SF) and the third
version of the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-3). The Kruskal Wallis test was done to
evaluate the relative autonomy index (RAI) and Metabolic Equivalent Task (MET) among groups, while a simple
linear regression was performed to identify the relationship between self-determination and physical activity levels
and between physical activity levels and academic achievements. A significant difference of self-determination
level was found between light and a moderate level of physical activity (p<0.05) and between light and vigorous
level of physical activity (p<0.001). Our findings also revealed that a positive moderate relationship was found
between the level of physical activity and self-determination level (R= 0.248, R2
=0.062) where self-determination
level significantly predicts the physical activity performed (p<0.01). However, a low negative relationship was
found between the level of physical activity and academic achievement (R= 0.123, R2
=0.015). In conclusion,
self-determination plays a key role in contributing the physical activity levels, while the physical activity did
not influence the academic achievement among the third-year students of Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia. |
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